Untimely thoughts
Subtitle: essays on revolution, culture and the Bolsheviks, 1917-1918
By: Maxim Gorky ; with a new introduction and chronology by Mark D. Steinberg ; translated from the Russian and with notes by Herman Ermolaev.
Contributors: Ermolaev, Herman.; Steinberg, Mark D., 1953-
Series: Russian literature and thought
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New Haven, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Gorky, Maksim, 1868-1936 -- Political and social views; Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921
Description: "One of the most renowned Soviet writers of the twentieth century, Maxim Gorky was an early supporter of the Bolsheviks. He became disillusioned with the turn of events after the 1917 revolution, however, and wrote a series of critical articles for the magazine New Life that eventually caused the new Communist government to close down the publication." "Untimely Thoughts is a collection of these articles. It is at once a brilliant analysis of the Russian national character, a condemnation of the Bolshevik methods of government, and a vision of a future in which respect for individual accomplishment replaces the tyranny of the tsars and the brutality of Russian peasant existence. A controversial book, it was not translated into English until 1968 and was not published in the Soviet Union until 1989. The English edition of Untimely Thoughts is now back in print with a new introduction and chronology by Mark D. Steinberg."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xviii-xxxv, [243]-296) and index.
Essays originally printed in the Petrograd newspaper Novaya zhizn (New life) from May 1, 1917 through July 16, 1918.
This collection originally published in 1968 by Eriksson. Translated text c1968 by Herman Ermolaev, new introduction and chronolgy c1995 by Yale University.